Talk:ABC News (United States)

Those old news briefs

I remember back in the 1980s when ABC ran news briefs during breaks from programming. There was even a sports brief (done by Dick Schapp) and a business brief. These briefs always had me associate ABC News with the 1980s. And also, what about the old Weekend Report? If you don't believe the importance of mentioning ABC's prior use of briefs, how come briefs are mentioned in the CBS News article? SOMEONE PLEASE GET THE FACTS AND POST ABOUT THIS UNFORGETTABLE SEGMENT OF ABC NEWS. -Amit

New upcoming join the news Hrshrama (talk) 16:53, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Q. re helping readers [more] where there is a red link

Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this question.

I noticed that there is some info out there on the internet about << Erielle Reshef – Correspondent^[44] >> that is seemingly reliable enough (e.g., to be "linked to" from a Wikipedia footnote). For example, THIS web page: https://bio-pedia.com/erielle-reshef/ seems to have a lot of useful-looking info (albeit interspersed, perhaps, with a lot of mild-mannered ads).

At first I thought that maybe she (Erielle) was notable enough for a web site like "bio-pedia dot com", but was perhaps NOT notable enough to have an actual article (in article space) on Wikipedia.

Not so!

Today I noticed (probably after doing a search) that not only Erielle Reshef but also several other (apparently notable) ABC News employees ... are listed here (in this article), but... with a link that is not yet a regular blue (i.e., non-red) link.

Once I saw that, I realized that, the editor who included any one of those [several] red links, was probably of the opinion that the person (e.g. Erielle Reshef) was sufficiently notable to have an actual article (in article space) on Wikipedia.

The reason why the article was not created may have been just that the editor was busy and did not have time for it. (or ... maybe some other reason, other than not being notable enough.)

I also am not about to create a new article, just because I saw that web page on the web site "bio-pedia dot com". (By the way, as far as I know, I had never heard of the web site "bio-pedia dot com" before.)

However, I think that (at least, until there is a Wikipedia article [in article space] about Erielle Reshef), there should probably be a link [perhaps in a footnote?] pointing to that web page on the web site "bio-pedia dot com", ... from somewhere near the extant red link that is displayed as (well ... as of 20 July 2022 it was displayed as) "Erielle Reshef".

(right?)

Thanks for listening! Any comments? Mike Schwartz (talk) 18:18, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I'm struggling to find any sources which whould show Reshef to be anywhere near passing Wikipedia:Notability (people). The bio-pedia page reads as if it was written by computer from a database entry. They probably have a similar page about me; I'm not notable either. If there is a mistake here it's that the red link should be black. Certes (talk) 18:48, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 18 June 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal (talk) 06:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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• ABC News → ABC News (United States)
• ABC News (disambiguation) → ABC News

– Australia's ABC News is its national broadcaster and is its most widely watched newscast. The Australian broadcaster reaches 8 digit levels of people on a weekly basis, while the U.S. company averages around 7 million on nightly newscasts. And, in absolute terms, Australia's ABC is quite a major news organization. I don't think the U.S. subsidiary of Disney is more of a WP:PTOPIC here, so I propose moving this to the proposed target and moving ABC News (disambiguation) to take over this page's title. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 20:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. JuniperChill (talk) 20:32, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Television/Television stations task force, WikiProject Disney, WikiProject Media, WikiProject United States, WikiProject Television/American television task force, WikiProject Companies, WikiProject Television, and WikiProject Journalism have been notified of this discussion. Векочел (talk) 11:44, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose. This has gone through many requested moves and all of them were to keep the status quo. Georgia guy (talk) 21:07, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

  The last discussion was 2017, and the media market has changed quite a bit since then—particularly so in television. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 22:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

• Oppose While ABC News owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) had considerable more audiences in absolute terms than the U.S. counterpart with similar name, we don't considered that, because without specify the country that originated when we searched on internet, "ABC News" is overhelmingly referred to the American one instead of Australian, even when we included the digital and social media platforms. So WP:PRIMARYTOPIC applies here (see [discussion in 2017]). ABC News owned by ABC Australia may be the primary topic in its home country, but not elsewhere. 103.111.100.82 (talk) 00:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
• Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:59, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
• Support: oppose arguments have a very US-centric worldview. YorkshireExpat (talk) 21:27, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
• Support. Anecdotally, most Australians are unfamiliar with the American ABC, and might be surprised to find out it's not the PTOPIC just because it isn't American. I do not believe either news organization has a reputation that exceeds their domestic audiences. AVNOJ1989 (talk) 03:48, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
• Support as above. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 22:06, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

How has this been decided??

This page got many requested moves in its early history, and they all got the consensus to keep the article at ABC News. But now it got one that allowed it to be moved. How did it change?? Does it have anything to do with the popularity of Australian Wikipedians?? (For anyone who answers this question please study this talk page's whole history.) Georgia guy (talk) 00:23, 4 July 2024 (UTC)